This was the website for the Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group which would meet every other month on the 4th Thursday at The Nerdery located at 9555 James Ave S, Suite 245, Bloomington, MN.
They offered free pizza to attendees!They welcomed WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts of all levels!

When I moved to NYC I lost track of them and was surprised when I recently discovered that the site's domain was available. I decided to buy it and dedicate this one page site as a shout out and homage to the commaraderie the meetings provided. While I was creating this page from the site's 2010 archived content, my dog decided to play tag with my cat. CATastrope followed with a carafe of iced coffee spilling all over an antique carpet. Although I quickly sopped up the coffee, I realized there was no way I would get it thoroughly cleaned. I returned to my computer that survived unscathed and did a search for carpet cleaning in nyc. I lucked out finding My Home Carpet & Upholstery Care. They not only did in home steam cleaning of wall to wall carpets, but they also cleaned and restored oriental carpets in their state of the art facility. A week later the cleaned and Scotch Guarded carpet was returned looking like new with restored fringe and no coffee stain! This site was built and life was restored to an even balance. Enjoy a nostalgic trip back to 2010 when the Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group was active.

by Toby Cryns

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Meetings are the 4th Thursday of the Month at The Nerdery | No Meeting in November or December

October 25, 2010

All of our discussions are currently taking place in our Google Group. Discussions are open to any question by any Twin Cities WordPress enthusiast of any skill level.

One night only! Tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 27, we will be showcasing and discussing the features of WordPress multi-site. We will be sharing examples of live multi-site websites as well as different ways to utilize multi-site.

We will follow that up with a Tech Shoppe and a discussion of our soon-to-be announced (and planned) WINTER EXTRAVAGANZA!!!

MSP WordPress #18 Tomorrow (Thursday)! SEO and Fun With Plugins

September 21, 2011

Tomorrow’s MSP WordPress gathering will feature local SEO guru, Dave Allen. He will be giving us an update on the current state of SEO. Is paid search better than SEO? How has Facebook changed the search game? Come and find out!

We will follow up Dave’s session with a roundtable on fun and useful plugins we all use (thanks, Susie!).

Finally, we will have a short organizing meeting for the yet-to-be-named local WordPress event this winter. Who knows, maybe we will call it “WordCamp”.

What: Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group MeetingWhen: Thursday, September 21, 2011 at 7 p.m. (Doors and pizza at 6:30)SessionTopic: The Current State of SEO; Fun with PluginsWhere: The Nerdery, 9555 James Ave S Suite 245 Bloomington, MN 55431Cost: Free! (Please bring a friend!)

See you tomorrow!
Toby

by Toby Cryns

MSP WordPress #17 Tomorrow! State of the Word

August 24, 2011

Greetings!

We will be holding our 17th WordPress gathering tomorrow night at The Nerdery.

The first part of the show will be Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address from WordCamp San Francisco. We will follow that up with a discussion about the current state of the WordPress community locally as well where you think WordPress is heading.

MSP WordPress #15 Date Change

Due to a scheduling conflict, MSP WordPress #15 has been moved to Wednesday June 29, 2011.

by Toby Cryns

WordPress Security! MSP WordPress #15 on Wednesday June 29, 2011

June 21, 2011

MSP WordPress is this Thursday next Wednesday June 29, 2011!

We will have a roundtable discussion about web and WordPress security precautions and then follow that up with a
Security Tech Shop where we can all work on implementing some of those things on our sites.

Then we will do a quick show-and-tell at the end. Please email me off-list if you want to reserve a spot on the show-and-tell docket.

???? (Matt Albiniak) – Matt, What was your topic at the first meeting?

Session Ideas

Is there something WordPress-related that you want to learn more about? Do you want to lead a session at a future meeting? If the answer to either of those questions is “Yes”, add your topic idea and/or name below:

Pros/Cons of WordPress hosting (WordPress or external) and costs (Add your name here)

Turning your Photoshop design into a WordPress template (Lindsi Gish – I don’t want to present, but I’d like to see how someone else goes about this in a step-by-step format) (Steph Tanner- also interested in learning this)

Using your website as your social hub (Mitch Hislop)

When WP should and should not be presented to your clients (Andrew Wachholz)

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One night only! Tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 27, we will be showcasing and discussing the features of WordPress multi-site. We will be sharing examples of live multi-site websites as well as different ways to utilize multi-site.

We will follow that up with a Tech Shoppe and a discussion of our soon-to-be announced (and planned) WINTER EXTRAVAGANZA!!!

MSP WordPress #12: Tech Shop

March 23, 2011

You have asked for it, and it is here! Due to popular demand (and a bit of last-minute planning on my part), we will be bringing Ye Olde Tech Shoppe back for tomorrow’s meeting!

This means that you should bring your broken websites, your wounded CSS, and your unsolved support tickets to The Nerdery tomorrow where one of our caring WordPress volunteers will try to help you mend your website wounds.

Be sure to have your FTP information, server logins, and WordPress logins handy if you need website support. Of course, spectators are welcome!

We closed 50 support tickets during WordCamp MSP; let’s see if we can add to that total!

See you there!
Toby

by Toby Cryns

MSP WordPress #11: Make MSPWordPress.com Awesome!

February 8, 2011

For February’s MSP WordPress gathering, we will be doing something a bit different.

With your help, Gillian and I will be procuring a list of “to-do” items for MSPWordPress.com. At the gathering on 2/24/2011, we will split up into groups, with each group being in charge of producing a “fix” for a specific item on the MSP WordPress.com website.

Some things that come to mind include:

Design a theme

Develop a theme

Make the group’s plugin directory awesome

Make the group’s theme directory awesome

Build functionality that gives job recruiters a place to post their openings

Build functionality that gives job seekers a place to post their credentials